Jimmy Carter: “I will nominate M. Athalie Range, of Miami, Fla., to be a member of the Board of Directors of the National Railroad…”

The title was very carefully chosen by me. And the first word is the most important. It's Palestine. The land of the Palestinians. It doesn't refer to Israel at all.

An overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man.

I recognize that Israel is a wonderful democracy with freedom of speech and equality of treatment under the law between Arab Israelis and Jewish Israelis.

That our country for the first time in my lifetime has abandoned basic principles of human rights.